Achievements
- 2016 Women’s European Championships – Silver
- 2018 Commonwealth Games – Silver
- 2022 Commonwealth Games – Gold
- 2023 European Games – Bronze
Rosie fell in love with the sport of boxing following her very first boxercise class in Caldicot and became obsessed with the Olympics after watching the likes of Nicola Adams and Katie Taylor at London 2012.
At 16 and after much persistence, Rosie joined Chepstow ABC where she went on to have her first bout where she won the novice Welsh title.
Two years later in 2018, she joined the full time boxing programme and in the same year, also took silver at the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia, which catapulted her name into the sport.
In 2020, she was selected for the first Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifier in London but unfortunately was beaten in her opening bout by Russia’s Saadat Dalgatova and suffered even greater heartbreak when her the second qualifier was cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
During this period, Rosie was handed further setbacks as she not only caught the illness on three occasions but also suffered significant nerve damage which kept her out of the ring for a period of time.
However, she did not let the setbacks deter her as she fought her way back to peak fitness in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where this time she went one better than her previous outing, as she won gold, crowning her welterweight champion.
She then continued where she left off in 2023 as she finally was able to realise her Olympic dream after beating Ireland’s World, European and Commonwealth champion Amy Broadhurst in impressive style at the European Games in Poland to qualify for a place at Paris 2024.
Rosie ended that tournament with a bronze medal, only losing to the eventual gold medallist Busenaz Surmeneli.
Speaking after qualifying, she said: “I’ve got no words! After everything that has happened, I thought this was too good to happen to me.
“I’ve kept coming back, grinding, and waiting and at times it felt like this was just impossible!
“Since I was eight, I’ve had a dream and at 16 I began boxing, we’re now a decade down the road and here we are. There are so many people to thank that have played their part along the way; my local club, Welsh Boxing, GB Boxing with all of the coaches and the support staff – I’m so grateful.”